Example sentences of "receive his first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheila 's head tilted back against the rough bark to receive his first kiss . |
| 2 | References in three separate contexts in Ali suggest that the lowest kadiliks of which the hierarchy normally took cognizance were those at the 25 -akce level ; and these would thus seem to be equivalent to the 20-akce medreses in being the level at which a fully-trained medrese student would expect to receive his first appointment . |
| 3 | Such an episode would affect any sensitive child , all the more one who had mixed happily with black people and , as already mentioned , received his first lessons in handicrafts from them . |
| 4 | Sam is now seven , and received his First holy communion at this convent on the next day . |
| 5 | At the time of writing , the situation had become a lot calmer , though it had only been a couple of weeks since Stan received his first injection . |
| 6 | Born in Edinburgh , Allan Ramsay was precociously talented and received his first commissions while still a teenager . |
| 7 | It is one of Joe 's great regrets that his father died before he made Raging Bull in 1980 , the film for which he received his first Oscar nomination . |
| 8 | He received his first report card when he was only four years old from a boarding school in the South of France which domestic insecurities had required our attending rather early in life . |
| 9 | Three years later he received his first major commission , to decorate Bodley 's new church of St John , Tue Brook , Liverpool . |
| 10 | In 1895 his article ‘ An Ideal Suburban House ’ , published in the Studio , exposed Scott 's talents to a wider audience and he received his first commissions from the mainland . |
| 11 | In 1922 Hannington received his first term of a month 's imprisonment for uttering seditious words . |
| 12 | Mayne received his first DSO for a raid on Tamet airfield , only three weeks after the initial disaster , destroying fourteen enemy aircraft and damaging ten others . |
| 13 | For his part in these attacks Mayne received his first bar to a DSO . |
| 14 | Nothing is known of his education and early life , but on 17 February 1826 he received his first certificate of suitability for a post in the excise service . |
| 15 | How dispiriting for Father Watson to tell her this , Nenna thought , and how far it must be from his expectations when he received his first two minor orders , and made his last acts of resignation . |
| 16 | On the third day of his illness , Harry received his first visitor : Alan Dysart . |
| 17 | In March 1942 de Gaulle received his first visit from the leader of a clandestine movement ( Christian Pineau of the movement Libération-Nord ) . |
| 18 | Having served his apprenticeship with R.H. Green and Silley Weir , Commodore Waller ( below ) received his first appointment with P&O in 1958 as Assistant Engineer in Dongola , later transferring to Stratheden for his first sea service . |
| 19 | Featherweight Temple forced last year 's champion Steve Hurcombe , of Lambton Street , into first-round submission with an exhibition of attacking boxing that , though short , illustrated amply why he received his first England vest recently . |
| 20 | David Feherty , who , like Richardson , has received his first Masters invitation , had much the same experience . |
| 21 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |
| 22 | Yet around the time that Servan-Schreiber was receiving his first royalty cheques , oriental faces could be seen popping up behind the walls at the Isle of Man TT races . |
| 23 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |